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Zambia: Government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govexp

2025
216 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+22.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+15.6%a year

Government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031435,965Forecast
2030375,205Forecast
2029336,168Forecast
2028304,683Forecast
2027271,849Forecast
2026244,413Forecast
2025215,669
2024175,502
2023152,642
2022139,315
2021134,929
2020113,227
201989,595
201876,313
201761,498
201651,707

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Zambia documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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